Evaluation+of+Websites

Religious Expression in Australia @http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/religion.html This website is a very useful for many reasons. Firstly, the validity of this source is so high because it is coming from a government website. The ‘gov’ in this website highlights the reliability of this source. Due to this very fact it could be assumed that the information would be from a neutral perspective with no elements of bias in it. This website also contains changes in the beliefs of people from 1996-2006. This information is very useful as it shows how much the religious landscape in Australia has changed. Along with this information are the factors affecting these changes. This is very useful as it not only contains how much the religious landscape has changed but also why it has changed. Finally, this source is very relevant to our topic as it gives statistics of change which has occurred. These statistics are backed up by very useful information which enables scholars to provide accurate details about changing patterns of Australia’s religious landscape. @http://www.cra.org.au/pages/00000163.cgi This website is very useful due to many reasons. Firstly, the ‘org’ in this website highlights the reliability of this website and the information in it. Secondly, the information recorded in here is coming from a neutral perspective. This is evident as it contains statistics based on how many people are against ecumenism. This information is useful as it allows us to make an accurate evaluation on ecumenism and its effect on religion in Australia. There are many statistics and dates in this website (eg: 18 percent of uniting clergy). These are very useful in composing an accurate and well written report on ecumenism. The information in this website is very relevant for students studying ecumenism in Australia. Firstly, the information is written with an easy to understand vocabulary. This makes the information more useful and relevant for scholars. Finally, the information in this website has been dated. This allows you to use the information based on what time period you are wanting to research. @http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2003/08/cusack.html This is a very useful website for this topic in SOR. This is because it contains actual numbers not just percentages of adherents for different religions. This allows us to produce accurate and strong evidence to back up our information. The information is very reliable in this website. This is evident as there are many other websites which share similar numbers and information. The information in this website is coming from an expert perspective. This means that the information in this website could be considered accurate and free from bias. In this website there is a lot of information based on the growing numbers of secularization. This is very useful and relevant as it has been included in the syllabus.

Contemporary Aboriginal Spirituality [] This website is very useful as it clearly explains the Mabo and Wik cases. It is a very reliable and reputable site as it is managed the Department of Education and Training, a highly reputable organization across Australia. This website clearly explains when the Mabo and Wik cases took place and the outcome of each case. This website is a very good source as it helped me understand the Mabo and Wik cases in relation to native title and Land rights and therefore allowed me to answer the question thoroughly. This site is quite reliable as it is made for students to use and for teachers to give to students as it is a classroom facts sheet. [] This website is very useful as it allows me to understand the relationship the Aboriginal people have with the land and how important it is to their spirituality. This website allows me to have a deep understand of the impacts that dispossession had on the Indigenous people of Australia. The sites reliability can be questioned as it written by an Aboriginal person and can seem biased and attacking towards the “white people”. Overall this site has helped me understand the effects of dispossession even though it may seem biased. [] This site is very useful as it allows me to thoroughly understand the implementations and effects of the protection policy and assimilation policies. It helped me in making a connection between dispossession and these two policies. This site is highly reliable as it is a government established website which makes the site highly reputable. This site allows me to understand why these policies were put in place and how effective they were in destroying the Aboriginal culture. This site is the most useful and reliable site I have used in completing this task.